How Chinese scientists plan to turn Dubai into rice fields
Chinese scientists have successfully grown and harvested rice in the deserts of Dubai after developing a strain that allows the crop to grow in saltwater. A team of scientists, led by China’s “father of hybrid rice” Yuan Longping, has already started growing the crop in diluted sea-water at home and is now bringing the technique to the Middle East, where fresh water is too precious to use for grow
How China's consumer patriotism is hitting US and international brands
China is seeing the emergence of a generation of consumers who are more likely to opt for home-made brands, spurred by a growing sense of national pride, according to a survey by Credit Suisse. The old adage that foreign brands are superior no longer holds true for young Chinese shoppers, who are increasingly showing a “domestic brand bias” amid “a degree of nationalism” in the world’s biggest con
Opinion | Insider share buys seen at Geely Automobile and Agile Group
There were several significant transactions last week with insider buys in Geely Automobile Holdings and Agile Group. There was also a rare purchase by the CEO and a buy-back in VSTECS Holdings. For the week, the buying among directors plunged while the selling fell, based on filings on the exchange during the holiday shortened week of April 30 to May 4. A total of 38 companies recorded 152 purcha
China ‘is ready to fight US to the end’ if a trade war breaks out
China has insisted that it will not succumb to US pressure to change its industrial policy nor offer major concessions on the bilateral trade deficit. A Chinese government official close to the high-level trade talks with America said on Wednesday that Washington should not set any preconditions for negotiations, adding that China had sufficient strength to fight to the end if a trade war broke ou
Taiwan leader Tsai willing to meet Xi ‘for peace and stability’
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday she would be willing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping “for peace and stability” in the wake of a landmark summit between the leaders of the two Koreas. Relations between Taiwan and the mainland have deteriorated since Tsai came to power in May 2016. Beijing still sees the self-ruling island as part of its territory awaiting reunification, by force
China’s failed Long March 5 rocket ‘choked to death’
The failure of China’s most powerful rocket, which plunged into the Pacific Ocean soon after launch last summer, was caused by an oxygen supply problem, an expert said on Monday after the release of the findings of an official investigation. According to a short statement posted on the website of the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence, just six minutes af
Just jaywalked? Check your mobile phone for a message from police
Traffic police in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen have always had a reputation for strict enforcement of those flouting road rules in the metropolis of 12 million people. Now with the help of artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology, jaywalkers will not only be publicly named and shamed, they will be notified of their wrongdoing via instant messaging – along with the fine. I
China’s lab-grown diamond industry has De Beers fighting back
The spread of synthetic diamonds in China, originally designed for industrial purposes such as oil drilling, is posing such a threat to the global diamond market that it has forced dominant player De Beers to invest tens of millions of dollars on methods to identify the man-made stones that look exactly like their own gems. A team of scientists at the mining giant are dedicated to fundamental rese
Chinese reporter censored after her eye-roll on live TV goes viral
It started out as a tedious question lobbed at a Chinese passing government minister but ended as a memorable unscripted TV moment at the country’s biggest political event of the year. Footage of China Business News journalist Liang Xiangyi rolling her eyes in apparent exasperation at another journalist during a staged doorstop at the Great Hall of the People was beamed live on national television
China’s Baidu drops lawsuit against driverless car start-up JingChi
Baidu, the operator of China’s largest online search engine, has dropped its lawsuit against JingChi, an autonomous driving start-up founded by its former executive, after the two companies agreed to cooperate in technology development. Beijing-based Baidu confirmed on Monday that it has ended its legal case against JingChi over alleged theft of technology secrets, just days after Wang Jing, who w
Natalie Wood had ‘unexplained’ bruises before drowning death - new coroner report
Some of the bruises found on actress Natalie Wood’s body may have occurred before she drowned in the waters off Southern California more than 30 years ago, according to a newly released coroner’s report on one of Hollywood’s most mysterious deaths. The case took another twist on Monday when officials released a 10-page addendum to Wood’s 1981 autopsy that cites unexplained bruises and scratches on
Trump and Kim impersonators thrown out of Winter Olympics
At least, that’s how it looked – but the pair were in fact impersonators who had made their way into the stands for the ceremony before swiftly being shown out by security staff. “We wanted to surprise everyone and bring world peace and then we’re being escorted out by security guards, which I think is really unfair,” the Kim impersonator said. “Doesn’t everyone want peace?”
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